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Jennifer Bradbury

Ages: 14+

Published: 2023

Publisher: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-1-4169-9009-3

Keywords: Fathers & Daughters, Cascade Mountains,Rock climbing, Detective, Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American Incarceration Camps, Mental illness

Cara's father, an expert mountaineer, is missing. She needs to discover where he is and get him to take his medications. A World War II-era journal might hold the key.